Taken from a post to that email group that pre-emptively banned our Mr
Cash (I'm still jealous of you for that one!):

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/communityinjapan/message/5543

If you're not a member, he says about a meeting being held:

    Please bring a native speaker, as proceedings will likely be
    in Japanese

Isn't he becoming just a little _too_ Japanese?

Ken